Smiler's theming needs rebuilding to be maintainable first off! Cheaply produced and not designed to last at all.Restore the original Smiler theming, and just give it TLC in general.
They did a fantastic job with Nemesis, so there's no reason that the Smiler can't have the same treatment.
Well, even with the odd dead-screen, the marmaliser still looks fantastic. It's just the inside section which lets it down IMO.Smiler's theming needs rebuilding to be maintainable first off! Cheaply produced and not designed to last at all.
Smiler could be immense if it was value engineered as an attraction!
2. 1hr ERT to return on peak days
Remove staggered openings on peak days
Return all lost themeing, add themeing and clean all themeing
Ban Fastrack, Improve operations (all rides max throughput all day), return some SRQs, install bag drops
Sort out the RAP problem
Remove staggered openings on peak days
Can I just ask what RAP stands for? Seen it referred to a few times now, excuse my ignorance!
Why should us that decide to visit on off-peak days be punished
ERT should return to 1 hour no matter what days
And Staggered openings should be banish for good, they don't work on off peak days either
Switch the smoke machines on. All of them: The Smiler, Oblivion, Rita, Galactica, Nemesis Gun, Nemesis Bus, Wicker Man. Keep them all on.
Well, generally speaking off peak days are very quiet, people have no problem getting on the rides multiple times, provided they get there first thing in the morning for opening and there are no staggered ride openings!
Switch the smoke machines on. All of them: The Smiler, Oblivion, Rita, Galactica, Nemesis Gun, Nemesis Bus, Wicker Man. Keep them all on.
Wicker Man is water too, Oblivion and Galactica are broken and havnt been repaired for whatever reason.Last Sunday all the haze based smoke machines were on, Nemesis gun caught me by surprise that it was on and the Wickerman area was full of haze. But the water based misters on Oblivion and the Galactica portal weren’t on.
Well, even with the odd dead-screen, the marmaliser still looks fantastic. It's just the inside section which lets it down IMO.
If the projection mapping is too hard to maintain then maybe they should replace it with some other theming. Perhaps regular screens instead. I'd love it if they made a pre-show for the inside queue!
The problem with real ivy is that it very quickly gets out of hand if left unchecked. Something tells me it would not be pruned on a regular basis.
For proof, just look at the Nemesis pit. Once upon a time, that was all bare rock. Now it's totally overgrown with ivy.
... Of course, the problem with plastic ivy is that it turns blue in sunlight....